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Mission

To protect and satisfy the common interests of
the organisation's members, which promote the development of young
people in order that they reach their complete intellectual, social
and spiritual potential as personalities, as citizens of Ukraine,
and as members of local, national and international associations.

Objectives

the implementation of educational and play programmes by disseminating them freely among young people, in order to carry out the organisation’s statutory
objectives;

the development and approval of teachers’ innovative
programmes;

promoting the introduction, dissemination and awareness-raising of stimulating programmes for educational and personal development;

collaboration with educational establishments to assist them in carrying out their statutory obligations, helping give practical assistance to organise free activities for children and to prevent disaffection in young
people.

The organisation's experience in the conservation of small
rivers

The organisation has carried out the following
programmes and projects:

an “Eco-Education” programme for two groups of children, aged 11–12 and 13–14;

a project, “The Health of the Irpin River is in Our Hands” (Kyivska Oblast);

a programme of activities to protect the Maydanytski Lakes and the River Maydanka as sites for the Carpathian Triton (Triturus montandoni) (Drogobytsky Rayon, Lvivska Oblast);

a programme of activities to protect the small River Gnylopyat (Vinnytska Oblast, Zhytomyrska Oblast);

an integrated programme, “Let Us Save the Nature of our Native
City”;

a project, “Big Problems of the Small Rivers Rozsich and Bystrytsya Nadvirnyanska” (Ivano-Frankivska Oblast);

a project, “Let Us Save the Small River Kuryachy Brid” (Kyiv);

nature-protection activities in the basin of the River Syrets
(Kyiv);

an “Ecology” educational programme for schoolchildren of forms 10–11.

Fifty-six active members of the organisation took
part in the activities, together with 162 volunteers (68 children -
members of the "School of Nature" environmental school, 76
children - members of the "Shulyavka" tourist club, 18
parents - members of "Shulyavka" NGO). The aim of the
activities: environmental education for children and environmental
awareness-raising among the population; nature protection: the
improvement of protected river banks, cleaning up and tidying the
banks of rivers and lakes, streams cleaned, environmental activities
carried out with the aim of attracting the attention of the
population to the environmental status and problems of small rivers
in densely populated areas, in Kyiv city in particular.

The organisation has prepared a project proposal,
"Protection of the Water Chestnut (Trapa
natans) population as an example of collaboration between
the mass media, population and authorities in solving local
environmental problems". The project envisages: 1) activities
aimed at informing the population (officials, schoolchildren and
other citizens of the rayon) about the existence of unique sites of
the Red Data Book species, Water Chestnut (Trapa
natans), under the conditions prevailing in Golosiivsky
Rayon in Kyiv; 2) activities to improve the sites where the species
occurs and to increase its population in ponds in parks in Kyiv; 3)
activities aimed at introducing Water Chestnut (Trapa
natans) into lakes in the city in order to extend the
natural habitat of the plant; 4) to ensure the effective
collaboration of different bodies; 5) to use the results of the
project to popularise environmental knowledge.